Blue Lotus Meditation and Mindfulness Center

02/25/2026

Deepen Your Journey: Announcing Our Newly Updated YouTube Membership Benefits! 🙏

Our community is growing, and so is our commitment to supporting your path. We are thrilled to announce new YouTube Membership benefits designed to help you integrate the Dharma into your daily life while supporting the continuation of these teachings.

Whether you are just starting out or looking for deeper immersion, there is a place for you here:

🌱 Level 1: Beginning Practitioner ($0.99/mo) Start your journey with custom loyalty badges and emojis to use in our community. You’ll also gain access to Members-only live streams and a 5% discount at The Dharma Institute. Focus: Earn merit and cultivate positive karma.

🙏 Level 2: Dedicated Practitioner ($1.99/mo) Take the next step with everything from Level 1, plus Members-only videos and exclusive live chats. Your voice matters: get priority replies to your comments and a 7% discount on Dharma Institute classes.

☸️ Level 3: Deep Practitioner ($2.99/mo) For those looking to influence the flow of our teachings. Enjoy all previous perks plus the ability to give priority Dharma talk suggestions. You’ll also receive our highest 10% discount on both books and classes.

How to Join: Simply follow this link to our YouTube Supporting Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWeAcmKhx9y37XDpvn4xPA/join

Thank you for practicing with us and for your incredible support. Together, we continue to turn the wheel of the Dharma.

02/25/2026

Morning Meditation and Live Q & A

02/20/2026

Weekend Reflection: Mental Formations (Saṅkhāra)

Mental formations, Saṅkhāra, include thoughts, emotions, habits, intentions, and reactions. This weekend, notice the patterns that shape your inner world. Watch how irritation forms, how kindness arises, how old habits repeat themselves when conditions align.

Rather than trying to control these formations, observe them with patience. Which mental habits create tension? Which bring ease? This weekend is an opportunity to nurture wholesome formations, generosity, patience, compassion, by feeding them with attention. What we repeatedly incline toward becomes the shape of our mind.

02/16/2026

Wishing you and your loved ones a joyful and prosperous Chinese New Year! As we welcome the Year of the Horse, may this new beginning bring strength, courage, and forward momentum into every area of your life. Like the spirited horse, may you move confidently toward your dreams with grace and determination.

In the Chinese zodiac, the Horse symbolizes vitality, freedom, passion, and perseverance. It represents powerful life force energy, independence of spirit, and the courage to travel far in pursuit of one’s purpose. Those influenced by the Horse are often seen as energetic, warm-hearted, and determined, moving through life with enthusiasm and bold confidence.

May your home be filled with laughter, your heart with peace, and your path illuminated with opportunity. This season is a beautiful reminder to release the old, honor our blessings, and step boldly into fresh possibilities. May good fortune, vibrant health, and meaningful connections surround you throughout the year ahead.

Here’s to new beginnings, renewed energy, and the powerful spirit of the Horse carrying you toward success and happiness. Gong Xi Fa Cai! 🏮🐎✨

02/16/2026

In this livestream, we explore The Bodhisattva Path: Everyday Altruism in a Complex and Divided World, reflecting on how compassion and wisdom can be practiced in ordinary moments, not just grand gestures. Together, we’ll look at how small, intentional acts of kindness become powerful tools for healing, both personally and collectively, especially in times of polarization and fatigue.

We’ll discuss cultivating compassion in a divided world, navigating disagreements with mindfulness, and applying Bodhisattva principles to modern challenges like online discourse, misinformation, and emotional burnout. This talk invites you to consider how altruism grounded in wisdom, discernment, and self-care can be sustainable and transformative, even when the world feels overwhelming.

Whether you are new to Buddhist teachings or have been walking this path for some time, this livestream offers space for reflection, shared insight, and connection. Bring your presence, your questions, and your lived experience as we practice together and explore how everyday compassion can quietly reshape our world, one moment at a time.

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.

To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us

Looking for a way to help guide others? Become a Blue Lotus Aspirant here: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/continue-your-journey

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02/13/2026

Weekend Reflection: Perception (Saṅñā)

Perception is how the mind labels and recognizes experience. This weekend, gently observe how quickly names, judgments, and interpretations appear. “Good.” “Bad.” “Boring.” “Familiar.” Notice how perception simplifies the world, often mistaking concepts for reality.

Try softening your labels. Instead of “I know this,” approach moments with curiosity. Listen without rehearsing conclusions. See without immediately categorizing. By loosening our grip on perception, we allow life to be fresh again, less confined by habit and assumption.

02/12/2026

History is filled with division and conflict between groups of people based on race, religion, socioeconomic status, country of origin, and more. In fact, we still witness and experience this discrimination today.

But history also has examples of the opposite, where two differing groups of people are best friends. Here friendship was nurtured through the content on ones character rather than some superficial quality.

In this story we learn the value of friendship between two very unlikely beings and how they truly cared for one another.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/HxGLJwa0G4c

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.

To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us

Looking for a way to help guide others? Become a Blue Lotus Aspirant here: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/continue-your-journey

YouTube Supporting Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWeAcmKhx9y37XDpvn4xPA/join

US Tax deductible donations may be offered here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88BRNH3K7Y7FQ

History is filled with division and conflict between groups of people based on race, religion, socioeconomic status, country of origin, and more. In fact, we...

02/06/2026

Weekend Reflection: Feeling (Vedanā)

Feeling (Vedanā) is the immediate tone of experience: pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. This weekend, notice how quickly feelings arise and how effortlessly the mind wants to chase, resist, or ignore them. A warm cup of tea, an annoying sound, a quiet afternoon, each carries a feeling tone before any story is added.

Use this weekend to pause at the level of feeling. When something pleasant appears, notice the urge to cling. When something unpleasant arises, observe the impulse to push away. When things feel neutral, see how the mind seeks stimulation. Freedom begins when feelings are known clearly, without being obeyed.

02/05/2026

Compassion and empathy are not optional virtues on the Bodhisattva path—they are its very foundation. To walk this path is to recognize that our lives are inseparable from the lives of others, and that awakening is incomplete if it excludes the suffering of the world. Compassion arises when we truly see pain without turning away; empathy deepens it by allowing us to feel with others rather than merely feel for them.

The Bodhisattva trains the heart to respond rather than react. Through mindfulness and wisdom, empathy becomes a bridge instead of a burden, guiding skillful action rooted in understanding. Compassion then moves beyond sentiment into practice, how we speak, how we listen, and how we choose to act in moments both ordinary and difficult.

In cultivating compassion and empathy, we dissolve the illusion of separation that sustains suffering. Each act of kindness, patience, or understanding becomes an expression of the vow to liberate all beings. The Bodhisattva path is not walked alone, it is walked with the world, step by compassionate step.

Sathu. Sathu. Sathu.
Buddham Saranam Gacchami

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Vladimir imparts the Buddha's Dharma with warmth and skill, filling the world's deep need for loving-kindness, compassion, and empathy.

To learn more visit us at: www.bluelotusmeditation.us

Looking for a way to help guide others? Become a Blue Lotus Aspirant here: https://bluelotusmeditation.us/continue-your-journey

YouTube Supporting Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWeAcmKhx9y37XDpvn4xPA/join

US Tax deductible donations may be offered here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88BRNH3K7Y7FQ